*** OFFICIAL VEISHEA WEEK 2014 THREAD ***
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It's a PR move plain and simple. Cancelling VEISHEA for this year has no affect on safety. The people who would cause trouble are coming anyway and they are all coming at the same time.
Cancel next year and you won't have riots because there won't be a target week to go crazy. Cancelling this year does literally nothing but smooth over PR for the school, which I understand. I don't blame them all that much, but there really is no change in safety for this week. Every single VEISHEA activity that got cancelled minus the concerts is PG. Those events are separate from the riots.
Was it next to Welch? There were a bunch of football players blaring music and dancing. No alcohol from what I could see though.
If it is Devondrick Nealy it's probably because they knew he was a football player. DBag move by Ames PD either way though.
they said they were going to arrest him on a simple misdemeanor because they already warned him. Not sure if it is DN, but Devondrick with FL plates. Either way no big deal, loud music ticket or arrest isn't anything to be worried about.
I don't see how you go from warning all the way to being arrested. Did they just skip over the ticket option?
Lived in Ames for 25 years and I thought all cops were as bad as they were. Once I moved to WDM I quickly learned, it's just the Ames PD. They're terrible.
Lived in Ames for 25 years and I thought all cops were as bad as they were. Once I moved to WDM I quickly learned, it's just the Ames PD. They're terrible.
Ames cops are awful. I got stopped before because I "looked suspicious" when I was walking home and went through the Cyclone Plaza garage to get to my apartment. A cop stopped me and asked what I was doing and I told him I was just going home. He asked for my ID and ran it against the arrest warrant registry. At the time I was just stunned I was stopped so I just did everything he said. Now looking back at it I wonder if they had the authority to do that legally. Anybody here with a law background know if they can do this legally?
Well when you are marching a massive group of drunk people down Lincoln Way after breaking up a party, it's just asking for trouble.
Yeah, unless he had probable cause that you were committing a crime or an infraction you did not have to produce your ID. He has every right to ask for it, but you did not have to produce it. You also did not have to tell him what you were doing there either.
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Without a few more details, I can't be 100% sure, but at least 90% of the time in similar situations, the cops don't have the legal authority to compel you to present ID. Obviously you volunteered it when they asked, but you could have said no and there wouldn't have been anything they could legally do about it.
I figured that was the case. I should have just said no and continued walking. But my thought was does Ames PD have nothing better to do than stopping an individual and running their ID? Sad.
